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  • Research and Markets: Border Security & Terrorism Concerns to Drive Global C5ISR Market Growth
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    Research and Markets: Border Security & Terrorism Concerns to Drive Global C5ISR Market Growth

    Research and Markets has unveiled a new report that forecasts a 3 percent compound annual growth rate for the worldwide command, control, communications, computing, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems through 2023. The company said Monday the global C5ISR market is projected to reach $1.36 billion in 2023 from $1.10 billion last year.   Increased […] More

  • Symantec Makes Gartner Cloud Access Security Brokers Quadrant
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    Symantec Makes Gartner Cloud Access Security Brokers Quadrant

    Symantec has been included on Gartner‘s “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers” that details the performance of vendors, leaders, challengers, visionaries and niche players in the CASB market. The company said Monday it made the leaders quadrant for its CloudSOC platform designed to help organizations secure data and applications in a cloud environment. Gartner evaluated […] More

  • Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments
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    Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received the 2018 Military Friendly Employer of the Year Award from Victory Media for the company’s efforts to hire military veterans. Recipients of the 2018 Military Friendly Employer award will be featured in Victory Media’s G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines, IBM said Monday. Sam Gordy, IBM general manager of IBM’s federal business, wrote in a blog […] More

  • ANSI Seeks Members for Group Supporting Drone Integration in US Airspace
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    ANSI Seeks Members for Group Supporting Drone Integration in US Airspace

    The American National Standards Institute seeks participants for a recently launched collaborative effort that will support the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S. national airspace system. ANSI said Monday the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative aims to coordinate and advance the creation of UAS integration standards and compliance assessment programs as well as foster international […] More

  • Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members
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    Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members

    The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Harris, will serve as […] More

  • Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer
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    Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer

    Ben Gibson, formerly chief marketing officer at F5 Networks, has been appointed to the same position at California-based cloud computing software company Nutanix. Nutanix said Tuesday Gibson will be responsible for developing and implementing a global marketing strategy intended to drive adoption of company-built enterprise cloud technology offerings. Gibson said he aims to help expand the company’s customer base […] More

  • Seattle-Based Nonprofit Code.org Raises Funds for Computer Science Education Programs
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    Seattle-Based Nonprofit Code.org Raises Funds for Computer Science Education Programs

    The Seattle-based Code.org nonprofit organization has secured $12 million in funds from investors such as PwC, Infosys and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle Times reported Monday. Hadi Partovi, co-founder and CEO of Code.org, said the organization plans to use the money to update its computer science curricula and train more teachers to educate K-12 students […] More

  • Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech
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    Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech

    Lockheed Martin has chosen OSI Maritime Systems to produce a navigation management system for use on the U.S. Navy‘s future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, for which Lockheed is the prime contractor. OSI said Wednesday it will provide the Integrated Bridge and Navigation System that is designed to integrate with warships and comply with the American Bureau of Shipping Class Rules for Navigational Integrated Bridge System. Chris […] More

  • GSA Taps Capstone Corp to Deliver Professional Services Under Multi-Award Schedule
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    GSA Taps Capstone Corp to Deliver Professional Services Under Multi-Award Schedule

    The General Services Administration has awarded Capstone Corporation a spot under the agency’s Professional Services Schedule award contract. The company said Friday the PSS indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract was made to support and simplify the procurement of services in the areas of advertising, marketing, business, finance, environment, languages and logistics. “This new contract consolidates seven formerly separate […] More

  • Kongsberg to Provide U.S. Army with Additional Weapon Stations
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    Kongsberg to Provide U.S. Army with Additional Weapon Stations

    Kongsberg signed a $39.8 million order to further furnish the U.S. Army with a battle tank remote weapon station system. The company said Friday that it will deliver additional PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Station Low Profile Commonly Remotely Operated Weapon Station configuration for the U.S. Army’s M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank spare parts and engineering services […] More

  • NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration
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    NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration

    NASA engineers have removed the James Webb Space Telescope from the space agency’s thermal vacuum testing platform installed at the Johnson Space Center following completion of a 100-day cryogenic test. The agency said Saturday it tested JWST’s optical structure and scientific instruments at Chamber A to determine if the future space observatory could function in a simulated space environment. NASA […] More

  • Air Force Offers Industry Access to ISR Pod Technical Data
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    Air Force Offers Industry Access to ISR Pod Technical Data

    The U.S. Air Force has opened up its technical data package for a prototype multi-intelligence pod system to the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance industry as part of an effort to encourage developers to build compatible sensor platforms. AgilePod is designed with multiple modules that can be configured to support ISR and non-ISR missions, the Air Force said Thursday. The […] More